Virtual Internship Opportunity: Software Development

Positions available: 3 Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3 computer science students or teams. CustomerDiscovery.co is a two sided marketplace dedicated to helping founders build tech driven products that people love and connecting them to the people that love them. We aim to be the #1 customer discovery platform that every early stage founder goes to. when they have a new idea that they want to validate and iterate upon. The primary focus for the student will be: to create our. two sided marketplace platform that helps founders validate and iterate their ideas with direct user research. Website Development - Conducting a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable for our website; creating a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, and timeline; building a fully-functioning website for our organization. Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application. Our goal at the end of this experience is: We need to have a fully functional website created from the designers prototypes and have several core features. These core features include 1) news feed 2) a native video chat feature (like zoom but coded with something like twilio) 3) a matching. algorithm that matches founders to early adopters based on. profile data/tags Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning website. Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application. Database Analysis - For the student(s) to help us improve our data storage and querying. Other duties the student may complete could include : (indicate other duties as exemplified below) Software vendor research and evaluation Assisting with other process improvement projects Unit and integration testing We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: (company slack, email) Student's primary contact : (Ethan Halfhide, Founder & CEO, ethan@customerdiscovery.co, ‪(804) 504-1084 )

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Software Development

Positions available: 3 Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3 computer science students or teams. CustomerDiscovery.co is a two sided marketplace dedicated to helping founders build tech driven products that people love and connecting them to the people that love them. We aim to be the #1 customer discovery platform that every early stage founder goes to. when they have a new idea that they want to validate and iterate upon. The primary focus for the student will be: to create our. two sided marketplace platform that helps founders validate and iterate their ideas with direct user research. Website Development - Conducting a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable for our website; creating a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, and timeline; building a fully-functioning website for our organization. Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application. Our goal at the end of this experience is: We need to have a fully functional website created from the designers prototypes and have several core features. These core features include 1) news feed 2) a native video chat feature (like zoom but coded with something like twilio) 3) a matching. algorithm that matches founders to early adopters based on. profile data/tags Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning website. Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application. Database Analysis - For the student(s) to help us improve our data storage and querying. Other duties the student may complete could include : (indicate other duties as exemplified below) Software vendor research and evaluation Assisting with other process improvement projects Unit and integration testing We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: (company slack, email) Student's primary contact : (Ethan Halfhide, Founder & CEO, ethan@customerdiscovery.co, ‪(804) 504-1084 )

Digital Content Creation

We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. CustomerDiscovery.co helps early stage founders build products that people love by connecting them with potential early adopters for idea validation and alpha user testing. We believe that by helping founders with customer discovery they can validate or disprove their assumptions more efficiently which will help them iterate and develop their ideas to reach product market fit successfully! We have a podcast called 'The Customer Discovercast' that is posted on apple, Spotify and Youtube. We need help creating tiktok, instagram, linnkedin, twitter, and/or YT short content to widen our reach. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: Write blog articles, email newsletters/sequences and other content pieces on assigned topics Assist with a social media video launch to promote our organization Evaluate recent successful user-generated campaigns, preferably in our sector Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to share our story Ultimately, you will be working on content creation for our organization, including video, social media, and other collateral that we can use as go-to marketing tools. If you like the sound of our culture, and are ready to tackle this challenge with us, then we'd love to hear from you. A student or team with excellent writing and video skills would be the ideal candidate for this project.

Marketing Specialists

Positions available: 20-30 (5 teams of 3-6 students each) We are excited to provide ambitious Marketing Students with Projects related to developing and managing all aspects of our marketing strategy. You will focus on creating, implementing, tracking and optimizing our digital and traditional marketing campaigns across various marketing channels. To be successful as a Marketing Specialist, you must be highly self-motivated, proactive, and have a working knowledge of current marketing tools and strategies in order to execute successful marketing campaigns. Potential Marketing Project Deliverables: Developing and implementing marketing plans. Undertaking competitor research and analyses. Conducting market research to establish customer trends and habits. Establishing goals and objectives in order to reach our customers through appropriate marketing channels (digital and traditional). Building and maintaining relationships with new and existing customers through prospecting and networking. Promoting brand awareness through marketing efforts. Creating marketing materials for our website and other marketing platforms. Supporting the marketing team with marketing activities by demonstrating expertise in various areas, including optimization, advertising, social media, direct marketing, and event planning. Marketing projects for CustomerDiscovery.co include: Content marketing. Students can write a series of content pieces for your business, based on your business needs. SEO. Students can complete a Search Engine Optimization analysis of your web presence, making recommendations to optimize your usage of keywords, your website and your content Marketing Launch Planning. Students can gain experience with marketing launch skill sets such as niche outreach, relationship building, and adding potential users to our waiting list. Branding and graphic design. Students can complete graphic design pieces using your logo and branding, such as a branded whitepaper, slide deck, and other assets. Alternately, students can undertake a logo redesign for your business.